Gun-wad



(No Model.)

G. J. OARNEY.

Gun Wad.

No. 236,304. Patented Jan. 4, 1881.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORN EY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. OARNEY, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

GUN-WAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,304, dated January 4, 1881. Application filed September 22, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. CARNEY, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gun-Wads,-uhich im provement is duly set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, to wit:

It is well known thatthe wad which is placed immediately over .the shot in fire-arms is an impediment to the flight of the'shot after it leaves the gun and until it falls. By its action the central pellets of the charge, which, by reason of their more perfect form, have the greatest penetration, are retarded and their efficiency is diminished thereby. By my inventionthe wad immediately over the shot is caused to fly through the air edgewise and not flatwise, thus allowing the centerof the charge of shot to pass by the wad with more fataleffeet. I

In thedrawings, Figure 1 represents a fiat gun-wad with a hole punched in it. The dotted line represents a portion of lead inserted therein preparatory to compression. Fig. 2 represents a similar wad with the hole in it filled with compressed lead. Figs. 3 and 4 represent cross-sections of flat gun-wads, the forms which portionsof lead. compressed may assume.

In'the accompanying drawings, A represents a portion of material of greater density A indicating as follows: The ordinary fiat-cut gun-wads, of

textile material, leather, or other suitable material, are placed eccentrically in, the jaws of a punch, which removesby its action a port-ion of the material of which the wad is composed; then a cylinder of lead or suitably-shaped portion oi'othersuitable material ot'greater length than the thickness of the wad and of the same diameter as the hole left in the wad by the punch, is placed in the hole in the wad and then compressed in the direction ofits length,

by which the metal assumes a flattened cheeseshaped form, the portion of the metal which bulges out entering the'sides of the hole in the wad, thus preventing its accidental removal. The wad may then be covered with a layer of paper or suitable material pasted on each side of thewad, and it is ready for use.

I claim as my invention- A flat-disk gun-wad, weighted at one side by equivalent, substantially as described.

GEORGE J. OARNEY. Witnesses:

AUSTIN K. GHADWICK, FRED A. CHASE.

an inserted piece of denser material, or its 

